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A Fourteen-Year-Old Created One of Across the Spider-Verse’s Most Adorable Scenes

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A Fourteen-Year-Old Created One of Across the Spider-Verse’s Most Adorable Scenes

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Published on June 6, 2023

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Across the Spider-Verse has premiered to great critical and general audience acclaim (as well as killing it at the box office). The sequel to Into the Spider-Verse, produced by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, took years to make and, without getting into spoilers, provides an assault to the senses, as it takes you to myriad Spider-Verses full of myriad Spider-People. It turns out that one of those scenes, and arguably the most adorable one at that, was created by a person who has yet to graduate high school.

Very mild spoilers for Across the Spider-Verse lie ahead!

Without getting into details, one 20-30 second scene in the movie gives us a glimpse of a LEGO Spider-Verse, where that Spidey is one of the best Spideys out there. There was a Twitter rumor going around that the sequence was created by a fourteen-year-old Preston Mutanga, who previously made a name for himself on the internet by re-creating the Across the Spider-Verse trailer with animated LEGOs.

Lord gave that rumor legitimacy when he retweeted a post by CultureCrave citing Mutanga as the person behind the LEGO segment in the movie.

“The future of animation is here!” Lord wrote, and by gum, I think he’s right! Across the Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsay also retweeted CultureCrave’s post confirming the news, writing “A Star is Born.”

How much of what we see in Across the Spider-Verse is from Mutanga? According to Andy Leviton, who is an associate editor on all the Spider-Verse movies, Mutanga “took our cut and blasted off with it, Injecting his own creative ideas/flourishes.” Leviton goes on to call the fourteen-year-old “an absolute GOAT!” and added, “I had the pleasure of cutting in each pass he did and even the very first pass was so polished, professional, and FUNNY!”

I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more from Mutanga in the future, and not just in Beyond the Spider-Verse.


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Vanessa Armstrong

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Vanessa Armstrong is a writer with bylines at The LA Times, SYFY WIRE, StarTrek.com and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Penny and her husband Jon, and she loves books more than most things. You can find more of her work on her website or follow her on Twitter @vfarmstrong.
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